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Veggie but not fake-meat/ raw stuff/ vegan

I'm looking for restaurants that have good veggie options beyond roasted vegetables. Closer to the Westside. To make this difficult, neither of us are into fake-meat/ raw stuff/ vegan food and we are both Indian-so eat enough of that at home. We both eat dairy and eggs.

To give you an idea of the places we've found and like (note that these are just entrees that are good to give an idea of what kind of food we're looking for)

Not too familiar with the westside...but a few places I can think about on my side of town (Hollywood/Silverlake) are Cheebo, on Sunset and Gardner, lots of pasta, pizzas and salads, Lala's on Melrose, has meatless (cheese and onion, spinach and onion, etc) empanadas, as well as salads, veggie skewers, lots of rice dishes, and Elf in Echo Park, which is all vegan/vegetarian, and although I haven't been there yet, the menu, which is on their website, looks amazing!

26 beach restaurant in venice, will gladly sustitute tofu for meat in any of their delicious entree salads. the two salads that i especially like are their tuscan salad (which normally doesn't come with a protein source, so i order a side of grilled tofu on the top.)and their pan fried goat cheese salad.

also, they make a mean veggie burger that comes with salad or fries. trust me on this, get the fries; as truly excellent as their entree salads are, surprisingly the side salad is meh. their fries, on the other hand, are, imho, sinfully good.